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Empires Erased · Born Of Osiris

EXERCISE 9 OF 45
Groove J -- Part J (a two-bar phrase)
37 / 109 BARS COVERED
0 / 45 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE PART J, PART L
CHORUS
PART J
PART N
PART J
PART L
CHORUS 2
PART W
PART Z
PART AC
OUTRO
18 groovesBJLAEZ+13Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 17
RUN · 6
JOIN · 12
LINK · 1
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Empires Erased on drums

109 bars of 4/4 at 112 BPM, about 3:50 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
112 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
109
LENGTH
3:50
DIFFICULTY
73/100

snare through bars 2-20, ride through bars 21-22, snare through bars 23-24, ride through bars 25-26, snare through bars 27-36 and ride through bars 37-38, and 12 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 14-15, 27-28 and 32, and 2 more places -- 10.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    14
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Empires Erased -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 44 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- AE -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and the Break -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 14-31 -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part N -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  7. Through Part N -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes.
  8. Through Part N -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  9. and 10 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Empires Erased?

112 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is Empires Erased hard to play on drums?

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 71 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

109 bars, about 3:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 44 exercises over 18 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 109 BARS ANALYSED